How to format your references using the International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Blatt, R. (2000). Push-button entanglement. Nature, 404(6775), 231–232.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wen, L., & Tang, F. (2015). Computational biology: How to catch rare cell types. Nature, 525(7568), 197–198.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yu, Y., Huang, L., & Cao, L. (2014). Semiconductor solar superabsorbers. Scientific reports, 4, 4107.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Quevedo-Teruel, O., Tang, W., Mitchell-Thomas, R. C., Dyke, A., Dyke, H., Zhang, L., et al. (2013). Transformation optics for antennas: why limit the bandwidth with metamaterials? Scientific reports, 3, 1903.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Ippolito, L. J., Jr. (2008). Satellite Communications Systems Engineering. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Bartocci, E., Lio, P., & Paoletti, N. (Eds.). (2016). Computational Methods in Systems Biology: 14th International Conference, CMSB 2016, Cambridge, UK, September 21-23, 2016, Proceedings (Vol. 9859). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Burchhardt, D. M., & Sukari, A. (2016). Chemotherapy in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Cancer. In A. M. Fribley (Ed.), Targeting Oral Cancer (pp. 53–68). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials.

Blog post

Evans, K. (2017, April 7). Australian Zoo Gives Badly Burnt Cockatoo New Wings In Icarus-Inspired Surgery. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/australian-zoo-gives-badly-burnt-cockatoo-new-wings-in-icarusinspired-surgery/. Accessed 30 October 2018

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office. (2006). Troops-To-Teachers: Program Brings More Men and Minorities to the Teaching Workforce, but Education Could Improve Management to Enhance Results (No. GAO-06-265). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Accortt, E. E. (2009). Frontal alpha electroencephalography (EEG) asymmetry as a risk factor for pre-menstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD); a psychophysiological and family history approach (Doctoral dissertation). University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Tierney, J. (2017, September 18). Easy Ways to Mend Your Marriage. New York Times, p. D4.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Blatt 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Blatt 2000; Wen and Tang 2015).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Wen and Tang 2015)
Three or more authors: (Quevedo-Teruel et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials
Abbreviation	Int. J. Concr. Struct. Mater.
ISSN (print)	1976-0485
ISSN (online)	2234-1315
Scope	Civil and Structural Engineering Ocean Engineering